Does my band suck?

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Hey, I play guitar and sing for a band out of South Ga.. called "Max Kincaide". We are kind of a mesh of punk, southern rock, and hardcore.. all thrown into one. we've been playing for about 9 months and just had our first show, (we drew about 200 kids). Our target audience is teenagers and young adults. We only have 1 song on our site right now, but as soon as my new firestudio gets here (should be here any day now) we will be recording again. I did this with a delta 66, a cheap mxl 990, cheap art tube pre, and sm57's. I'm not so much looking for production comments, as just musical content.

thoughts? what can we do to improve? Who do we sound like?

www.myspace.com/maxkincaide
 
Can't listen to myspace stuff at work as the site is blocked, maybe later.

I have stumbled into the mixing clinic to point out that a person named "emomusician" is asking if his band sucks (verses "What could we stand to improve" - its a glass half-empty kinda thing :D. Just seems fitting - no personal offense meant to you, good sir.
 
lol yeah, I have never bothered to change my name.. I should.. but bleh.

anyhoo..

whats a good site to upload music to that most workplaces don't block?
 
NL5 said:
Depending on how tight the filters are - www.lightningmp3.com is good. :D
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How ironic... I JUST resurrected my "who the Hell runs lightningmp3" thread, because I just discovered that it is blocked at work :( presumably because it contains the word "mp3". Sigh.

Good site, though, and locally owned by, well... if it isn't obvious, I'm not sayin anything :D
 
i guess it doesn't too much matter then.. everything is gonna be blocked by "someones" work somewhere.
 
cusebassman said:
How ironic... I JUST resurrected my "who the Hell runs lightningmp3" thread, because I just discovered that it is blocked at work :( presumably because it contains the word "mp3". Sigh.

Good site, though, and locally owned by, well... if it isn't obvious, I'm not sayin anything :D
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Have you tried accessing MySpace via the IP address? They block MySpace at my work, too. But I can get on via the IP address. I can't log on or anything but I can go to profiles and stuff.

http://216.178.39.14/

To find out the IP of any site, use Start > Run > Type "CMD" and hit enter. Then type "ping www.sitename.com"

The flash player they use won't load on my end but it might for you.
 
Your vocalist sounds exactly like steve aiello from Monty Are I. http://www.myspace.com/montyarei . I thought I loaded the wrong page at first. There's not a lot of creative stuff going on with the song, but it's not boring. It doesn't suck, in my opinion, but it's going to be tough to stand out amongst the countless other bands that have a similar sound. Good luck!
 
I checked out the vid you have on myspace. Yall look like 4 autistic mongoloids. I didn't listen to the music, cause my sound card is fried :)
 
I hear nothing but snare and distortion in that video.

And I don't think your band sucks, but I do think it sounds just like every Maylene-influenced, tight pants wearing, "I paid 30 bucks for this haircut but I'll swear it was DIY" band out there.
 
Hmm..

I didn't think there were that many bands doing this sort of thing.

unfortunately. its very difficult to be completely original. However I don't think we sound that much like Maylene, at all really. But I do love their music and don't mind taking bits of pieces from them.

I see more as.. we could play with Maylene, than "you guys are a maylene rip off". Hard to be innovators.
 
Tired genre that should have died years ago. Pleaseeeeeee just write different music
 
Mix sounds okay. I don't like the song though. As others have said, it sounds like the millions of other songs out there. Impossible to distinguish your music from other people's.
 
mind telling me what songs?

I want to go listen. or not even songs, what bands do we sound like? We haven't been able to figure out, and are having a real tough time figuring out "who" to play with. But apparently if we sound just like everyone else.. finding out who that everyone else is.. would help us find where we fit in this mad musical world.

not really out to innovate. Just out to have fun.
 
emomusician said:
mind telling me what songs?

I want to go listen. or not even songs, what bands do we sound like? We haven't been able to figure out, and are having a real tough time figuring out "who" to play with. But apparently if we sound just like everyone else.. finding out who that everyone else is.. would help us find where we fit in this mad musical world.

not really out to innovate. Just out to have fun.
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Don't worry about it then. Just play your cliche music better than they do. I live in the south and see bands like yours every week. Everyone claims to mix "the south" with modern rock or punk. If this is what yall naturally come up with, then it is what it is. You can't force something that isn't there. Just play it better than the next guy. Judging from this recording, yall need work. the timing is sloppy and that vocalist is terrible. Just being honest man.
 
emomusician said:
mind telling me what songs?

I want to go listen. or not even songs, what bands do we sound like?
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Turn on the radio...or the TV.

If that is your sound then keep playing it, nothing wrong with that. It just doesn't sound distinguishable at all from other music you hear all the time on the radio.

I didn't notice any timing problems or anything but I didn't listen for very long.
 
Don't worry about it then. Just play your cliche music better than they do. I live in the south and see bands like yours every week. Everyone claims to mix "the south" with modern rock or punk. If this is what yall naturally come up with, then it is what it is. You can't force something that isn't there. Just play it better than the next guy. Judging from this recording, yall need work. the timing is sloppy and that vocalist is terrible. Just being honest man.
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who else is playing it?

like I said.. i don't know of any. if there are, they don't sound like us.
what about the vocals don't you like?

some parts are off key I know. your the first to comment on the vocals being bad. its usually the drums being off that I hear.
 
emomusician said:
who else is playing it?

like I said.. i don't know of any. if there are, they don't sound like us.
what about the vocals don't you like?

some parts are off key I know. your the first to comment on the vocals being bad. its usually the drums being off that I hear.
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Dude, you guys sound like regular run-of-the-mill modern radio rock. There's umpteen dozen local bands down here in Houston that sound just like you guys. That's not a knock against you, I'm just saying that your sound isn't that unique or even interesting. To think that you are breaking ground and get all defensive over it is wrong on your part. I'm telling you from over a decade of playing live and seeing bands that you sound like everything else. It's no big deal. The way you remedy that is to play BETTER than the rest.

The vocals, strictly my own opinion here, are thin, pitchy, whiny and pretty typical poppy-punk sounding. They sound like any other college-aged pop-punk band. The drums have good playing style, but they sound flat and cheap. Just my 2 cents.
 
The mix is pretty nasty.
The song is up beat, got that catchy emo pop thing going which I don't like, but it sounds good for the style you are going for.

Eck
 
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